Chapter Summaries

Howard completed the Type II Super Soldier Serum and took Lin Xu, Maria, and Tony toward Wales to meet Carter. Steve intercepted them on the road, but when Lin Xu pretended not to recognize him, Steve feared that Bucky might be in danger.

• Howard finished the Type II Super Soldier Serum and decided not to inform S.H.I.E.L.D. yet.
• Howard and Lin Xu returned to the Malibu beach house, where they invited Tony to join them on their trip to Wales with Maria.
• Steve learned from Carter that Howard was traveling and flew out to intercept him before Bucky could attack.
• Lin Xu used the Eye of Agamotto to spot Steve approaching by helicopter, and Steve jumped down to meet Howard.
• Steve recognized Lin Xu, but Lin Xu pretended not to know him, leaving Steve worried that Bucky might face a local god.

Lin Xu confronted Steve Rogers and Bucky, overpowering Bucky and discovering that Steve was his old friend. Steve reunited with Howard and Tony, who learned that Captain America was actually his Uncle Grant Rogers.

• Steve claimed he came from the future and recognized Lin Xu, who jokingly declared him a time criminal under arrest.
• Bucky arrived and fired at Lin Xu, but Lin Xu used Steve as a projectile and challenged Bucky to fight.
• Lin Xu caught and deformed Bucky's metal arm, then caught his other punch; Bucky knocked himself unconscious by headbutting Lin Xu.
• Steve recognized Lin Xu through their old stone-skipping contest, and Lin Xu realized his phone had given him away.
• Howard punched Steve and confronted him for returning after forty years without visiting; Tony learned that Steve was his Uncle Grant Rogers.
• Steve confirmed that the unconscious man was Bucky, while Howard guessed Bucky had merely been passing by.

Tony learned that Lin Xu had not used the Super Soldier Serum and tried to hire him as a personal trainer, agreeing to pay him a hundred million in gold. At the TVA, Loki discovered that agents could only reach one advancing point in Steve Rogers’s timeline, where twenty-one years had passed and Steve’s daughter was nearly grown.

• Howard learned that Bucky had been controlled by Hydra and had come to kill him, then teased Tony about having another child.
• Lin Xu asked Steve about his daughter, and Steve said Sharon Rogers was twelve years old.
• Tony asked Lin Xu to teach him how to get stronger, but Lin Xu agreed only after Tony offered him a hundred million in gold.
• Loki told Mobius that a timeline had become independent after gaining its own God of Time, while Mobius reported that TVA agents could no longer travel freely through Steve Rogers’s timeline.
• Loki tested the restriction himself, then learned that Steve’s daughter was almost grown and decided to visit the timeline.

Lin Xu removed Hydra’s brainwashing from Bucky by replacing it with a command that only he could activate, then left Bucky to reunite with Steve. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick learned that Howard had gone to Wales and ordered Coulson to investigate Pierce’s movements.

• Lin Xu and the others arrived at Carter’s manor in Wales, where Steve introduced Lin Xu to Sharon and Lin Xu pressed the Seal of Vishanti onto her forehead during a supposed game.
• Steve carried the unconscious Bucky to a guest bedroom, and Lin Xu used Astral Projection to draw out Bucky’s soul.
• Lin Xu recited the Winter Soldier trigger words while clearing Hydra’s control, leaving Bucky bound to obey Lin Xu’s mental commands.
• Bucky recognized Steve and regretted the terrible things he had done, and Lin Xu returned his soul to his body before leaving them alone.
• Nick learned Howard had completed the Type II Super Soldier Serum and flown to Wales, then ordered Coulson to find out where Pierce had been during the past week.

Lin Xu encountered Loki, who had come to remove Steve and the others from a timeline their presence had disrupted. Loki arranged to send them to a stable universe where Agamotto was the God of Time, and Lin Xu agreed to go with them.

• Lin Xu felt his magical artifacts react just before Loki knocked at Steve's house.
• Loki sensed the Odinforce inside and questioned Lin Xu, who introduced himself as Fengxian Borsen, Bor's son and Loki's uncle.
• Loki told Lin Xu that Steve, Carter, their daughter, and the Howards had to leave because they had affected the timeline.
• Lin Xu suggested a universe where Agamotto was the God of Time, and Loki agreed to send the group there.
• After Loki said he would wait an hour, Steve asked Lin Xu what was happening, and Lin Xu told him to pack while he woke Howard and the others.

Lin Xu parted from Steve and the others, visited Agamotto at Kamar-Taj, and was unexpectedly sent to another universe. Loki returned to the TVA, where he learned that another timeline was inaccessible.

• Tony asked Bucky to take him along to fight Hydra, and Bucky taught him to say “Hail Hydra.”
• Loki brought Lin Xu, Steve, Howard, Sharon, and the others to Long Island in 2000, where Lin Xu parted from the group to visit old friends.
• At Kamar-Taj, Lin Xu spoke with Agamotto about his divine power and the White Magic Book, then Agamotto sent him to a barren Gobi Desert in another universe.
• Lin Xu returned to the Gobi Desert to investigate which universe he had reached, while reasoning that Agamotto had sent the elderly Captain America back to the Endgame universe.
• Loki returned to the TVA and learned that another timeline could not be accessed.

Lin Xu found Logan and Charles near death at an abandoned factory and offered Logan money to drive him downtown. At the Time Variance Authority, Loki learned that Lin Xu had entered a doomed Logan Anchor universe and left the matter to Paradox’s division.

• Lin Xu arrived at the abandoned Magic City Jackman Food Factory and identified Caliban as a Mutant who could smell other Mutants.
• Lin Xu recognized Charles’s mental probe and stopped it from reaching his mind, while Caliban realized Charles had failed to contact him.
• Logan returned to the factory with Charles’s medicine, rejected Lin Xu’s claim of friendship, and agreed to drive him downtown for a hundred thousand dollars.
• Logan recalled that the Mutant-suppressing toxin had nearly wiped out Mutants and that his failing Healing Factor left him suffering from Adamantium toxicity.
• Loki confirmed that Lin Xu was in the X-M.DFP09 Logan Anchor universe, then assigned the temporal anomaly to Paradox’s division.

Lin Xu parted ways with Logan in Aberdeen and later met Wade Wilson, who had a handsome face and called himself Nicepool. Lin Xu realized Wade’s universe might be collapsing far sooner than expected, possibly because Paradox had already used the Time Ripper.

• Logan drove Lin Xu to Aberdeen, where Lin Xu urged him to buy medicine for Charles and avoid getting involved in trouble.
• Lin Xu checked into a hotel and spent a week cultivating while Logan went to find a boat broker.
• Wade Wilson chased armed gangsters through the town on a pink electric scooter and blocked their bullets with Adamantium blades.
• Lin Xu used divine power to bring Wade up to his balcony and learned that Wade was not a mutant and had an unblemished face.
• Lin Xu recognized Wade as Nicepool and wondered whether the universe’s destruction was imminent because Paradox had already used the Time Ripper.

Lin Xu enlisted Wade to protect him, then used Logan’s hair to locate Logan and found him hiding with Charles, X-23, and a family. After learning the biotech company was tracking Logan and had captured Caliban, they decided to wait and fight rather than put the family in danger.

• Wade offered to protect Lin Xu for two hundred dollars, and Lin Xu paid him with two gold bars.
• Lin Xu and Wade searched the bloodstained factory, where Wade found a strand of white hair.
• Lin Xu used the hair to open a portal to Logan, Charles, X-23, and a family’s home.
• Logan recognized Wade and learned from Lin Xu that the biotech company had captured Caliban and was tracking him.
• Wade proposed waiting for the company’s men and killing them all, and Lin Xu agreed.

Lin Xu treated Charles’s deteriorating brain, but restoring his memories triggered a psychic breakdown that Lin Xu stopped with the forbidden forgetting spell Kof-Carl’s Ruins. Later, Wade entertained X-23 and then went to help the homeowner restore the water, after Lin Xu warned him Logan’s clone was on the way.

• Lin Xu tested Charles’s recognition and used the Healing Mystic Art to restore circulation in his brain.
• Charles remembered causing the deaths of his students and friends, unleashing a psychic wave that paralyzed the homeowner’s family and hurt X-23 and Logan.
• Lin Xu protected Logan with a Seal of Vishanti, then used Kof-Carl’s Ruins inside a Mirror Dimension to make Charles forget Erik and quiet his psychic power.
• Charles said he felt clearheaded, and Logan thanked Lin Xu for helping him.
• Wade discovered that X-23’s comic was titled “Wolverine” rather than “X-Men” and blamed the middlemen for splitting up his work.
• Lin Xu sent Wade to help the homeowner fix the water valve, warning that Logan’s clone was coming.

Lin Xu transferred Logan’s soul into X-24’s body, giving Logan a new body and a renewed desire to live. The timeline of the Wolverine universe began extending again, and a woman hidden beneath Mount Vinson sensed the world’s continuation and wondered if her child had returned.

• Lin Xu killed X-24 and found that the clone’s soul was only an inactive mass of electrical arcs.
• Lin Xu moved Logan’s soul into X-24’s body, then revived Logan by repeatedly moving X-24’s brain waves into it and pulling them back out.
• Logan woke in the new body, agreed to bury his old one, and learned that Caliban and the people hunting them were nearby.
• Mobius told Loki that the sealed Wolverine universe’s timeline had begun extending again, reaching around fifty thousand years.
• A woman in a hidden hall beneath Mount Vinson sensed the world continuing and asked whether her child had returned.

Lin Xu sent Wade away safely and watched Logan lead the rescued children to a secluded home, choosing not to join them. After the group departed, a gigantic, flickering woman appeared before Lin Xu, and the Eye of Agamotto trembled at her presence.

• Caliban revealed that the used-boat seller worked for the Essex Corporation, and Logan went to recover his money while Lin Xu sent Caliban to his room.
• Wade admitted that he still remembered the X-Men, so Lin Xu placed a Seal of Vishanti on him, warned him to avoid Charles, and sent him away through a portal.
• Lin Xu realized he had left Wade's belongings behind and teleported Wade's clothes, swords, and gold to him.
• X-23 reunited with the other children at a secluded cliffside refuge, and Lin Xu explained that their genetic serum made them immune to the government's genetic virus.
• Logan declined Lin Xu's offer of a portal and led the children away with Charles and Caliban, while Lin Xu stayed behind.
• A six-meter-tall, flickering woman appeared beside Lin Xu, causing the Eye of Agamotto to tremble.

Lin Xu learned that Oshtur planned to remove the Universal Anchor from Logan and take on the resulting karma, even if it killed her. She entrusted Lin Xu with a White Magic inheritance and a teardrop, then he began training for a Mount Everest climb with Wong.

• Lin Xu learned that Oshtur was trapped between illusion and reality after the Phoenix Force’s true form disrupted her attempt to seal its avatar, killing Hoggoth and turning Agamotto back into a teardrop.
• Oshtur told Lin Xu she would return to reality in six months and try to remove the Universal Anchor from Logan, accepting the karma and possible death herself.
• Oshtur asked Lin Xu to find a steady-tempered successor for White Magic and gave him her second teardrop, which granted him powers including seeing through illusions and firing lasers.
• Lin Xu woke late at Mount Everest’s north base camp, where Wong scolded him for missing training targets.
• Wong led the group on an acclimatization hike from 5,200 meters toward a camp at 5,800 meters, while Lin Xu looked toward the summit.

Lin Xu impressed Lao Wang during a high-altitude training hike, then mysteriously summoned an injured snow leopard and brought it back to base camp. After discovering Lao Wang’s ancestor was the mage Kan, Lin Xu revealed a divine-looking transformation, and Lao Wang accepted him as an ancestor and asked to learn whichever training method offered more.

• Lin Xu completed the difficult training route with remarkable consistency, prompting Lao Wang to ask whether it was his first time there.
• Lin Xu summoned a snow leopard from between the rocks, wrapped it in a blanket, and brought it back to base camp for treatment.
• Lao Wang privately questioned whether Lin Xu was a Mutant, and Lin Xu asked about Lao Wang’s family legends and learned his ancestor’s monastic name was Kan.
• Lin Xu transformed in front of Lao Wang into a figure bearing a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, a Heavenly Eye, war-god armor, and a robe.
• Lao Wang recognized Lin Xu as the Lord of Sichuan, knelt and called him Honored Ancestor, then asked to learn the training method with more.

Lin Xu tested Old Wong by sending him through a Mystic Portal to learn the spell and return from Mount Everest, then continued his own climb to the summit. Afterward, he waited for Oshtur and visited Old Wong’s family, where he discovered that Zhang Aimei also had mage blood.

• Lin Xu knocked Old Wong three times, and Old Wong interpreted it as a secret summons to learn magic.
• Lin Xu sent Old Wong from the Sahara to Mount Everest with a Sling Ring and the Mystic Portal incantation, and Old Wong returned covered in frost.
• Lin Xu and Old Wong resumed their training, then joined the climbing team’s acclimatization trips and summit push.
• Lin Xu reached Mount Everest’s summit on foot, saw more than a hundred bodies buried in the snow on the descent, and returned to base camp with the team.
• Lin Xu waited for Oshtur, bought the latest electronic products, and visited Old Wong and Zhang Aimei for New Year’s Eve dinner.
• Lin Xu sensed mage blood in Zhang Aimei and thanked her, and she asked whether he had recovered.

Oshtur brought Lin Xu, Xiao Wang, and Xiao Wang’s wife to Antarctica for five years of magic training, where Lin Xu learned that his body could hold only 0.9 Odinforce. Oshtur revealed that Agamotto had sent him because she could help with the limit, then brought him to Valhalla to meet Bor Bellison, where Bestla discovered Lin Xu’s connection to Odin’s divine power and drew a cryptic conclusion.

• Oshtur began teaching Xiao Wang and his wife magic while Lin Xu studied alongside them.
• By the fourth year, Lin Xu could contain 0.9 Odinforce, but his body could not safely hold more or grow stronger.
• Oshtur told Lin Xu that Agamotto had sent him because she could help with his problem, and offered to take him to meet Bor Bellison in Valhalla.
• Oshtur brought Lin Xu to an Asgardian temple, where Bor and Bestla’s statues came to life.
• Bestla sensed Lin Xu’s connection to Odin’s divine power, laughed that she understood why Bor had protected Midgard, and sealed herself away in her shrine.

Lin Xu met Bor and Oshtur, who removed the Asgard Lock binding his divine body by burning Mimir’s heroic spirit. Bor then secretly established Lin Xu’s identity as Borson, just as Logan’s Seal of Vishanti detected an invader from another world.

• Bor questioned Lin Xu about his identity and learned that Lin Xu had transformed his divine body and god-force using Odin’s power from another universe and white magic.
• Bor explained the Asgard Lock and agreed to help Lin Xu break it so he could keep strengthening his divine body before Ragnarok.
• Bor used Mimir’s heroic spirit as the cost of breaking the lock, while Oshtur drew the chain of rules out of Lin Xu’s divine body.
• Oshtur said Lin Xu’s identity as Borson was now established in name, and Lin Xu realized Bor had secretly done something to his third eye.
• Lin Xu and Oshtur sensed that Logan’s Seal of Vishanti had been triggered, and Oshtur identified an invader from another world.

Logan cared for Charles and the children at their secluded home in British Columbia when a Deadpool from another universe appeared and tried to take Logan with him. Lin Xu intervened, sent Deadpool away, and stayed to talk with Logan before preparing to leave.

• Logan went to change Charles's sheets after Laura told him Charles had wet the bed again.
• A Deadpool from 1990 arrived through a portal, mistook Logan for a younger Wolverine, and asked him to come along.
• Lin Xu arrived, recognized Deadpool, and refused to lend him Logan because Logan was an Anchor.
• Deadpool begged Lin Xu to save his universe, but Lin Xu killed him and then sent him through a Mystic Portal after he revived.
• Logan explained that Charles had chosen not to extend his life, then asked Lin Xu about Anchors.
• Lin Xu prepared to leave, and Logan joked that he was avoiding dinner after criticizing the children's Indian-style cooking.

Lin Xu learned why Oshtur had once attracted Bor’s interest, then sent Deadpool away after Deadpool asked for help with the Time Variance Authority. Deadpool landed in 2013 beside a grieving Thor and met Loki, leaving the reason for Thor’s tears unresolved.

• Oshtur told Lin Xu that Bor had sought to join with her after she and Hoggoth helped banish Devourer from the universe.
• Lin Xu released Deadpool, who asked about Anchor Beings and the Time Variance Authority; Lin Xu said its director was his nephew and introduced himself as Fengxian Borsen.
• Deadpool used his TVA time pad to leave and arrived in 2013, where Thor mourned a Deadpool who looked like him.
• Thor mistook Deadpool for Loki and threw Mjolnir at him, but Loki appeared and caught the hammer.
• Loki grabbed Deadpool, and Deadpool named Fengxian Borsen as his uncle before asking why Thor was crying.

Loki learned that Paradox had tried to prune Deadpool’s universe early, while Lin Xu mourned Oshtur after she extracted the world’s anchoring from Logan and dissolved into the Dao. In Valhalla, Bor proposed sacrificing the spirits of the gods to restore Oshtur to physical form, and they agreed.

• Loki brought Deadpool to the TVA office hall, learned Paradox had planned to prune Deadpool’s universe, and sent Deadpool back to his birthday party.
• Deadpool refused to wait for news and decided to use Cable’s time-travel watch to find his uncle again.
• Lin Xu learned Oshtur had extracted the world’s anchoring from Logan and dissolved into the Dao, then praised her across the world.
• Lin Xu awakened the consciousness within Xiao Wang’s Sling Ring, spoke with Oshtur, and watched her voice vanish.
• Xiao Wang told Lin Xu that he and Ai Mei planned to recruit disciples in Kathmandu, and Lin Xu urged him to value character and comprehension.
• Bor gathered the spirits in Valhalla and proposed sacrificing them to restore Oshtur; Odin supported the plan, and the spirits agreed.